by Jenae Cohn | Jan 25, 2022 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning, Pedagogy
In 2021, we talked a lot about being “resilient” and “flexible.” We lived through yet another Pandemic Year, this one somehow full of more turbulence than the Pandemic Year that came before. If 2020 was the year of the Emergency Remote Pivot,...
by Jenae Cohn | May 22, 2019 | Higher Education, Professionalization
Sometimes, going big should be our goal, but on many other occasions, an obsession with scale and size can get in the way of cultivating community. As someone who has been working at the intersection of learning, design, and technology for a few years now, I’ve...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 31, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
I spent an hour of my day yesterday alone in a conference room. But I wasn’t really alone: I was on Google Hangouts with a bunch of people from around the world. As the ten of us fumbled with our web cameras and headphones, our audio and video tests (“Can...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 17, 2012 | Personal
My office is a very quiet place. But for the mechanical gushes of air conditioning that grace the office airwaves on the half hour (I look a lot like this most days), the only other sounds I hear are the click-clacking of keyboards, the gentle shuffle of someone off...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 26, 2012 | Personal, Web Culture Musings
How do you think Fyodor Dostoevsky would react to Google Docs? Do you think he would embrace the collaborative writing tool or instead remain invested in the Enlightenment individualism that accounts for much of contemporary writing practice and thought? Google gives...
